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  • Is Signal messaging really private?

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  • If it was hosted outside the US and not on AWS, would you use it then?

  • Is Signal messaging really private?

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  • Unlike Whatsapp, Signal doesn't store your network of contacts. They have your phone number, time of registration, and time of last connect to their servers. They go to great lengths to keep the rest private. In Signal's case, I don't see an issue at all, but I do see all the benefit.

  • There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty

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  • the second step is realizing it isn't going to change, at least not any time soon

    No, I will never have this attitude. I refuse to believe that we couldn't at any moment choose to change our course. The rich and powerful fear it. Believing things won't change, sooner or later, only benefits them and not us. There is no magical right time for change, there's only now.

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  • It's his reassurance bucket.

  • ඞඞඞ

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  • Tiny Red Dots!

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  • No Google Play Services, no more marketing notifications. Bliss and privacy.

  • Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities

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  • Year of the Linux phone in 2026?

  • YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality

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  • Knowing Google, they care more about blurring the lines between AI and reality to confuse and force it onto people than they do about saving a few dollars on storage costs.

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  • Not to mention the firewall is itself AI.

  • you ignore it until you can't anymore

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  • Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows

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  • In the words of Miyazaki:

    Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • Personally, the open source community's aversion to algorithms is what's holding me back. Say what you will about them, but I've found many great songs thanks to Spotify's algo.

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • every keystroke

  • Tesla awards CEO Musk millions in shares valued at about $29 billion

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  • Around $232,000 per employee, and all of it went to him...

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  • There's some good discussion about the security in the comments, so I'm just going to say that Lumo's Android app required the Play Store and GPlay Services. I uninstalled.

    It's also quite censored. I gave Proton's cute chatbot a chance, but I'm not impressed.

  • GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship

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  • Damn, I missed it.

  • Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off

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  • Yarvin and Thiel scare me...

    Here's some of Yarvin's writings, if you want to feel like disappearing into the woods, getting on a rocket, and blasting off as far, far away from this planet as possible:

    precedent should be rolled back to 1900 at the latest, and probably more like 1800. The democratic era has corrupted everything, law being no exception.

    One way to see internal security in a Patchwork realm is as a compromise between two sorts of Orwellianism. In the sense that the realm is (effectively) omniscient and omnipotent, it would fit most peoples’ definition of “Orwellian.”

    Residents of a Patchwork realm have no security or privacy against the realm.

    All residents, even temporary visitors, carry an ID card with RFID response. All are genotyped and iris-scanned. Public places and transportation systems track everyone. Security cameras are ubiquitous. Every car knows where it is and who is sitting in it, and tells the authorities both. Residents cannot use this data to snoop into each others’ lives, but Friscorp can use it to monitor society at an almost arbitrarily detailed level.

    There is one problem, though, which is ... the problem of adults who are not productive members of society. In our little Newspeak we call them wards of the realm.

    As Delegate of San Francisco, what should you do with these people? I think the answer is clear: alternative energy. Since wards are liabilities, there is no business case for retaining them in their present, ambulatory form. Therefore, the most profitable disposition for this dubious form of capital is to convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.

    Okay, just kidding. This is the sort of naive Randian thinking which appeals instantly to a geek like me, but of course has nothing to do with real life. The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass.

    However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide.

    The best humane alternative to genocide I can think of is not to liquidate the wards—either metaphorically or literally—but to virtualize them. A virtualized human is in permanent solitary confinement, waxed like a bee larva into a cell which is sealed except for emergencies. This would drive him insane, except that the cell contains an immersive virtual-reality interface which allows him to experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.6

    The virtual worlds of today are already exciting enough to distract many away from their real lives. They will only get better. Nor is productive employment precluded in this scenario—for example, wards can perform manual labor through telepresence. As members of society, however, they might as well not exist. And because cells are sealed and need no guards, virtualization should be much cheaper than present-day imprisonment.

    Many other regions of the earth, however, contain large numbers of human beings whose existence may well prove an unequivocal liability to the owners of any ground on which they would reside. If so, they can be virtualized, creating giant human Wachowski honeycombs of former bezonians, whose shantytowns can be cleared and redeveloped as villas for retired oil-company executives.